DEFENCE
Dean Wells
Stevenage career: 2014-7
Factfile
Biography
One of a raft of new additions to join us in summer 2014, Dean Wells arrived at the Lamex Stadium from Conference Premier side Braintree Town. We paid a reported fee of around £25,000 to land the defender after he’d helped the Essex side to a respectable sixth place finish in 2013-4. In joining Boro’, it was the first time in 10 years that Wells had been on the books of a Football League club; he started his career at Brentford as a young player but made a limited number of appearances before being released by Martin Allen in 2004.
During the second half of the 2016-7 League Two campaign, Wells found himself on the sidelines more. And, despite a handful of appearances in the final stages of the season, Wells left the club on a free in May 2017.
Dean Wells: Before Boro’
The defender looked to non-league to rebuild his career; starting that path with Hampton & Richmond Borough, a club at which he stayed for seven years in the Ryman League and then Conference South. It was so nearly the Conference Premier too, losing a playoff in 2009. When the time came to depart the Beveree Stadium, his next port of call was Staines Town. But it was the briefest of stays; four appearances made before he moved on to Braintree for the club’s first season in the Conference Premier.
| Season | Starts | Subs | Goals | Unused | YC | RC | Wins | Defeats | Win % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 43.75% |
| 2015-16 | 32 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 11 | 31.25% |
| 2014-15 | 49 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 20 | 16 | 40.82% |
